Re: Ifs shares and mapped drives

I have an idea... I don't know if it's a "simple solution" (it's conceptually simple, but might not be easy to implement)

Windows has a command called 'NET USE' that you can use to map a drive letter. The command has the ability to supply a userid and password. So you can do this:

NET USE I: \\myi5\myshare mypassword

This will map the I: drive on the PC to the NetServer on the i5, and it will use the Windows userid, but not the standard windows password. Instead, it'll use "mypassword" as the password.

Similarly, I can do this:

NET USE I: \\myi5\myshare mypassword /USER:sillyguy

and it will not only use the password from the command line, it'll also use the userid from the command-line. Once the drive has been mapped this way, it'll continue to work (using the supplied userid/password) until Windows is rebooted.

You could put this NET USE command in your user's logon script, or in a batch file in the "Startup" folder on the PC to map the drive, and it'd happen automatically at each boot. The tricky part is where do you get the userid/password? Do you hard-code it in a batch file? If so, this could become a security nightmare. I suppose you could ask the user for it (write a program that asks the user, then runs the NET USE command) with the appropriate values...

But, maybe you can make it work...

Smith, Mike wrote:

I have been asked to have a folder on the IFS available to one of our
departments via a Mapped Drive. I have created the file share and mapped the drive, however, probably
80-90 % of the users do not have the same pwd for network and Iseries
signons. So, the mapping of the drive does not seem to work for them.
Apart from having a single signon solution(we don't currently have plans
for doing this) is there a simple way to get around this.
Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.